With a look of determination in my eyes, I marched closer to the Valley Windworks where my enemy was waiting.

Ka-chak!

KLANG!

I kicked the door off its hinges and it smashed into the wall, bent out of shape. I then continued into the building were a few Grunts were waiting to fight me.

With a flaming pile of beat up Grunts behind me and every wall stained with blood and guts, I soon found myself face to face with a different looking Team Galactic member with red hair. She was guarding a man with a labcoat.

He must be the little girl's father! Oh, this chick is going to pay… I thought. Then, the girl spoke.

"Oh, what a surprise. Hi, trainer. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mars. I'm one of Team Galactic's three-sorry-four commanders," said the red haired girl. "We're trying to create a world better than this world…and yet-"

"Shut up. I don't want to hear any of you and your teammate's stupid shitty plans to take over the world. I get it. You guys are greedy and arrogant, but I've come to put an end to your dumbass plans."

"Oh, aren't you feisty. You wouldn't understand what we're doing, now would you? It's a bit saddening… so we will have a battle to decide what we should do next. Here's how it works though. If I win, you will leave and never bother us again. If you win, then we will leave. How does that sound?"

"Oh believe me, I'll give you something more than just a little battle," I snarled, readying myself for battle.

She first sent out a Zubat which tried to use Leech Life, but I dodged quickly.

"How many of these things do each of you guys have!?" I yelled, knocking out Zubat. "I swear, this is ridiculous! Is it a requirement for all of you to have at least one goddamn Zubat on your teams?"

"Kinda… but that doesn't matter! You want a different Pokémon? I'll give you a different Pokémon! Go Purugly!"

"Ha, Pur-UGLY? What a stupid name- OH MY GOD, THAT THING IS FREAKIN' UGLY!"

And it was. It was fat, first of all, it had sort of a spring tail, it had purple ears, and it looked mad as hell.

"Purugly, use Faint Attack!"

Purugly vanished, and I looked around. Suddenly, I heard a sort of whoosh sound, and Purugly appeared behind me. Luckily, I blocked just in time.

"Oh no you don't!" I held my arms up in an X shape which blocked Purugly's attack. I kicked Purugly away, and charged my attack.

"Flame Ball!"

"Fake Out!"

Purugly clapped its paws around the Flame Ball, but it couldn't take the pressure. Purugly flew back into the wall, KO'ed. I had won.

"What!? I lost to you? You little brat!"

The battle was over. I was exhausted. I rested on one knee, panting all the while.

"Whatever. It's quite alright that I lost. I enjoyed our little battle. As promised, I will leave. We have all the energy we need-" Mars looked over at the pile of Grunts on the other side of the room. "Uh… I will leave, and um… yeah, um, bye!" She ran over to the pile of Grunts and dragged them away.

"That was amazing."

The man in the lab coat was standing there with a look of awe on his face.

"Oh, uh, thanks."

"Where did you learn to fight like that?"

"Oh, well, I was born with fire powers, and I've been training since I became a trainer, which was 2 days ago."

"And you're this strong already? Wow, I see great potential in you."

"Thank you."

"So, Team Galactic… they were saying they had to gather Pokémon and energy no matter what. They said it was for creating a new universe, or something like that. It didn't really make sense to me."

"But why? Why would they want to create a new universe? Isn't this universe good enough? Ah, whatever. I'll stop them, no matter what it takes. I don't care."

At that moment, the little girl came rushing up to us from the other side of the room.

"Papa! You're safe!"

"Oh, Thank goodness, you're safe as well."

"Ew, papa, you're stinky! You need to take a shower!"

"Eheh, I guess that's the outcome of working nonstop."

The little girl turned to me. "Thank you so much trainer! You saved my papa from those bad guys! I think the balloon Pokémon will start to visit again."

"Balloon Pokémon? What balloon Pokémon?" I asked.

"Oh, you've never heard? About the Pokémon Drifloon? Don't worry, you'll see it one day."

"Drifloon…? Wait, I've heard that name somewhere, but where? Where do I know that name from?"

Outside the Windworks building I wondered, who? Where? How? As I thought about it, I continued north.

On north Route 205, I pressed on and on, fighting more trainers and training with Spearow, who grew in levels as well. But the name stuck. Drifloon…

Where have I heard that name?

I made my way to a rest house in front of a large forest that expanded farther than arm's length if you were standing in front of the entrance. A lady greeted me and asked if I wanted to rest for a bit. I nodded with my eyes shut and followed her over to a comfortable looking bed. I didn't hear the rest of her words, I remembered was her saying something about working too hard is bad, or something like that, but I was so tired that I fell asleep before my head hit the pillow.

I had a dream where I was standing in a town. As I looked around, the setting seemed more and more familiar. I was in Floaroma Town. I smiled, because I like that place. I was taking it all in, when suddenly, I heard screaming, followed by angry yelling coming from Route 205. I saw a woman running for her life, holding a baby child. She was running away from a gang of guys with facemasks, ducking and screaming all the while. She ran towards me but tripped over and dropped the baby. The baby in the cloth started crying and the woman desperately tried to crawl over to the baby. Out of curiosity, I leaned over and looked in the cloth at the baby's face. The baby was starting to grow a bit of hair, which was black. My hair is black too, I thought. The baby looked like me, with those deep brown eyes, and the serious expression-Wait, I thought, is that…me? A-and that must be my mom! I looked over at the woman who had gotten a hold of the baby.

Then suddenly, I felt a blast of heat. I stepped away, and I felt cool again. I stepped towards Mom and baby me and I felt warm again. Why was that? I heard the shouts getting closer, and I saw the black silhouettes gathering around Mom and the baby. Mom held onto the baby for dear life as the silhouettes began whacking at mom, beating her terribly with sticks and bats.

"LEAVE HER ALONE!" I yelled, charging up Flame Ball, but the silhouettes had some sort of shield around them in which the attack backfired. I blocked, and then kicked the barrier, which sent me flying back. I couldn't attack. It seemed hopeless. I seemed powerless. Then, one of the silhouettes used their own attack, an electric attack. I was sent flying back even farther, in which I was paralyzed. I tried moving closer to the bad guys, coughing up blood all the while, but everything seemed hopeless once again.

I was ready to give up. The silhouette that attacked me turned and saw that I was trying to get back over to them, and started to attack, but suddenly, a figure dropped out of the sky. It was a balloon-no-it was a Pokémon. Wait a second, a balloon… Pokémon? It seemed familiar, somehow. It used an attack that knocked out all of the silhouettes, and then it fled the scene, carrying Mom and baby me. Behind me, however, a silhouette got up and summoned an attack on me. A bolt of lightning dropped out of the sky, heading straight for my head.

"GAHH!" I sat straight up. I was in a bed. I checked for any wounds or blood. None. I moved my arms. They seemed fine.

"Are you alright, sweetie?" asked the woman who had put me to bed.

"I think I know now. Uh, thank you for letting me stay."

"My pleasure. Don't forget, working too hard is bad for you, so you should take a break once in a while."

"Okay. Thank you! Goodbye!" I called, running out of the house. I understood my dream. I realized:

Drifloon saved my mother. Drifloon saved my life.